"Do we know how the fleet was destroyed? How were they all taken so completely by surprise?"

"We do not know sir. The scout ship Valik'Burish made the jump out of the system along with this wreck of a dropship. They ships were being picked off enmasse by Daemon forces when she arrived. The dropship was retrieved, being the closest to the scout vessel, but the crew of the dropship was already dead."

"So, whatever caused this to take place could happen again."

"A possibility Commander. We are still trying to access the dropship's memory core, but much of the system data itself appeasr have been courrpted and lost. It's a pile of programming jibberish. The programming language seems to make no sense at all and is frankly of a type I have not seen before."